All Blogs for the Home Cook

Hidden ingredients numbers 1 and 2: Tools and Temperature. What’s your guess for hidden ingredient number 3? It's TIME. Here’s the hidden time (more...)

This is the second of a four-part exploration of the essentials you need in your kitchen, when you are about to start cooking (more...)

Here I’m talking about staples—things for your pantry, whatever that looks like. So you won’t find things with a short shelf life, like (more...)

If you’re just “tuning in”, this is the fourth of a four-part exploration of the essentials you need in your kitchen, when you (more...)

So now you’re going to be cooking for yourself—and maybe others. What do you need on hand in order to do that? In (more...)

Snow and ice has brought my city to a stand-still, and YIKES! Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, and there won’t be any last-minute trips (more...)

Wow, guys, I just learned something highly valuable about cooking…from an oven repair guy! It turns out that most ovens have the temperature (more...)

I’m not the only cook in my house. It’s not unusual for me to be asked what’s “wrong” with a batch of soup (more...)